Client: Carael Knight
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Making Money Online Through Web Hosting
What is web hosting?
Web hosting is an internet service that provides a means for businesses and individuals to post their websites on the internet. Web hosts offer space on a server that their clients can use to connect to the internet. There are several types of web hosting that you may offer in order to make money online. Some of these are:
� Free web hosting service
� Shared web hosting service
� Overselling
� Managed hosting service
� Home servers
Whether you choose to provide a basic web hosting service or a more complex and diverse service, depends on your knowledge and ability to make money online from web hosting.
Free Web Hosting Service:
This service is free and is often supported through advertisements posted onto the sites that are hosted. The options you can offer your clients are usually very limited to a basic web page with no frills. For beginners with little to no web hosting experience, this may be a good way to start out.
Shared Web Hosting Service:
With shared web hosting, anywhere from a few to hundreds of web sites are all placed on the same server. All domains share the same server resources such as RAM and CPU, which can limit the size of a site that can be posted.
Overselling:
One danger you must avoid at all costs if you intend to build a reputable web hosting service is overselling. This is a situation where you have basically sold too much web space in order to sustain all of your customers if everyone used the services you offer to their full extent. While uncommon, overselling can be detrimental to the point of completely sinking your web hosting business if you gain a reputation for providing substandard and unreliable features and services.
Users have their own web servers and have full control over it, but they do not own it. With Self-managed or Unmanaged dedicated hosting, the user has full administrative access to his/her web site and is responsible for all of the maintenance and security of his own site, but he does not own the server space his site is posted through.
Managed Hosting Service:
The user is able to have his/her own server, but he is not allowed to have full access to the administrative aspects of his site. The user cannot go into the management tools and change anything in the site. This allows the host to guarantee quality control of the server while leasing the server to the user.
Home Servers:
In some cases, a web host will choose to place a server in his own home, then offer web hosting from a typical broadband connection. This type of hosting is generally the least reliable as the larger ISPs actively work to block these individual servers from gaining internet access.
As you can see, web hosting can be a legitimate and profitable method of making money online. The type of service you offer will depend on your knowledge and access to equipment and programs. You have the option to begin small and slowly expand your service offerings as you build your knowledge base.